The funeral for newsXpress member Garry Angus (of newsXpress Bendigo) will be held Thursday October 27, 2011 at 1:30PM at St. Kilian’s Catholic Church, McCrae Street, Bendigo.
The offers of support from newsXpress members and newsXpress suppliers have been overwhelming and heartwarming.
The funeral next Thursday provides an opportunity to remember a wonderful man who loved life and lit up the room.
The latest HOT Ink! campaign which is just one week old is generating excellent traffic for newsXpress members based on feedback we have been receiving at our national merchandise office.
With the deal-packed two-page catalogues out, product displays up in newsXpress stores and other local promotions being engaged, newsXpress members are banking excellent results from their positioning in the highly competitive ink space.
Thanks to good buying and professional marketing we have another successful HOT Ink! campaign under way, delivering good results for newsXpress members, newsXpress suppliers and newsXpress itself.
The HOT Ink! campaigns run by newsXpress are considered best practice newsagency marketing, delivering excellent commercial results to participating newsXpress members.
newsXpress Wetherill Park has been running a wonderful promotion of gift and related items with a Paris theme.
Featuring products sourced from one of our newsXpress preferred suppliers, this terrific display is not what you would expect when you walk into a newsagency … this is exactly why it works at generating sales. It is also generating traffic from shoppers who notice the display as they walk past the shop.
Well done to the team at newsXpress Wetherill Park on such excellent initiative, creative execution and for supporting a newsXpress preferred supplier … you do the newsXpress brand proud.
newsXpress Wyalla Plaza has been promoting a range of Halloween products next to their display of Hallmark boxed Christmas cards. Placing displays from two seasons next to each other like this can leverage traffic generated by one into driving sales for another. It also gives kids with parents something to look at and enjoy shopping as much as the parents.
newsXpress is promoting Halloween in a national TV commercial which is running on the Nine Network’s GEM stations right now and for two weeks in the lead up to Halloween.
The new packaging supplier introduced by newsXpress recently is helping members drive excellent sales thanks to some innovative and appealing products. Their range of boxes and bags are helping members create wonderful displays from themed displays for a specific season or occasion through to a broad appeal display.
The photo shows just part of the new packaging range being carried y newsXpress Riverlink. This store embraces just about all newsXpress preferred spiller initiatives and the results for the business are excellent.
Thanks to the biggest mix of preferred suppliers in the newsagency channel, newsXpress is able to help members cater to a broad variety of needs and generate excellent sales results.
newsXpress is proud to be offering the Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Gift Subscription through all newsXpress stores.
Being promoted with the Better Homes and Gardens magazine in-store as well as on the BHG display stand, this gift subscription offer gives us an opportunity to achieve incremental sales for the magazine … the most popular home and living magazine in Australia.
The Better Homes and Gardens Gift Subscription makes for an excellent gift for our customers to purchase and send to a loved-one as their Christmas gift. It’s easy to mail.
This gift subscription gives us something which we know our shoppers will like, something new for us to sell.
And the best part … this offer is EXCLUSIVE to newsXpress thanks to our Strategic Partner Pacific Magazines.
newsXpress Jimboomba is promoting a good range of Halloween product on the dance floor and is making good use of the newsXpress Halloween marketing collateral. From witches hats to pitch-forks to cobwebs, the Halloween range at newsXpress Jimboomba is terrific – perfect for a party or some street fun.
newsXpress is promoting Halloween in a national TV commercial which is running on the Nine Network’s GEM stations right now and for two weeks in the lead up to Halloween.
newsXpress Pelican Waters is promoting Halloween products on the dance floor, facing shoppers as they enter the newsagency. The halloween products are competitively prices and have been sourced from newsXpress preferred spillers … offering excellent margin.
newsXpress is promoting Halloween in a national TV commercial which is running on the Nine Network’s GEM stations right now and for two weeks in the lead up to Halloween.
Smurf products continue to sell very well at newsXpress Riverlink. The candy mushroom range from one of our newsXpress preferred suppliers is another product from the range which has sold through quickly at the sales counter at newsXpress Riverlink.
With the Smurf movie still playing, it is smart by the Riverlink team to have the Smurf Candy Mushrooms on the counter … making the most of the movie tie in opportunity.
newsXpress members who embraced the Smurf opportunities promoted by the newsXpress merchandise team has been banking excellent results.
What a wonderful, warm and welcoming display created y the team at newsXpress Launceston. This Spring themed window display is just terrific. Bringing together products from a range of suppliers, this display certainly shows off a depth of range of products one would not usually associate with a newsagency. Well done to the team at newsXpress Launceston for such a good buying and a wonderful display of the products available.
Walking past the shop, Launceston shoppers would certainly notice the display and most likely browse the shop … checking out the excellent range of gifts promoted.
We are very lucky here at newsXpress to have a diverse mix of businesses, owners, team members and skills in our newsXpress family. While our stores support suppliers with structured displays and promotions, we have fresh and innovative out of the usual displays like this one from newsXpress Launceston to challenge and motivate us.
newsXpress members were saddened to hear this morning of the murder of newsXpress member Garry Angus overnight at his newsXpress Bendigo (Victoria) store.
newsXpress members and suppliers are rallying around Garry’s family with offers of support and comfort.
Garry was a regular participant in newsXpress member meetings and other activities, offering helpful comments and always ready with a laugh when we needed it.
Garry will be sadly missed. Our collective heart goes out to his loved-ones.
Congratulations to newsXpress Southport Park for making it as a finalist in the local business awards as reported last week on the Gold Coast.
Recognition as a finalist in the franchisee section of the awards is wonderful for the newsXpress Southport Park team and they work they put into their business and into supporting the newsXpress brand in their area.
The team at newsXpress Ballarat has created what we consider to be the best promotional display for the excellent range of Lovatts crossword titles. This display makes the titles heroes in a wonderful display which uses the pencil motif to visually connect with the engagement one has with a Lovatts crossword or puzzle title. We loved this display so much that we shared it with our team of Business Development Managers for them to show newsXpress stores as they make their visits around the country, helping newsXpress members with best practice display and management in and of their business.
Click on the image to see the display in detail.
The team at newsXpress Ballarat continues to excite with their innovative and engaging product displays.
Lovatts is a newsXpress preferred supplier. newsXpress members will support, promote and focus on their titles above all other crossword and puzzle titles.
The Halloween display at newsXpress Wetherill Park on the dance floor is eye-catching, easily drawing attention from shoppers as they enter the store and easily driving sales already for Halloween which is on October 31.
Packed with Halloween products from newsXpress preferred suppliers, this display at newsXpress Wetherill Park represents the journey newsXpress has led newsagents on since entering the Halloween season space in 2005. This is how a highly successful season for us, generating excellent new traffic in newsXpress stores and driving a boost to shopping basket depth.
newsXpress is promoting Halloween in a national TV commercial which is running on the Nine Network’s GEM stations right now and for two weeks in the lead up to Halloween.
Bishop’s newsXpress Goondiwindi is set to celebrate 100 years in business shortly and already they story is getting media coverage in the newspaper. Check out the story from The Chronicle newspaper last week.
newsXpress is thrilled to have Jack Bishop and the family as members, contributing to the national newsXpress story.
Congratulations on the 100th anniversary!
newsXpress corporate store at Watergardens Town Centre, Taylors Lakes Victoria, has the latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens being promoted with this excellent display. Click on the image for a larger version.
Located in a high-traffic position next to the main sales counter, this display is designed to drive impulse purchases of this popular title.
Attention is grabbed with the creative display and the magazine can be easily browsed or purchased off of the display.
newsXpress encourages all members to undertake this work, placing Better Homes and Gardens in a high traffic location and promoting it with a professional eye-catching display.
The most widely used loyalty promotion in the history of the newsagency channel in Australia is the newsXpress Magazine Club Card. Year after year we have nailed it, delivering excellent value and easy access to genuine rewards in the reach of all shoppers.
There is no other loyalty program like our Magazine Club Card. Customers love the easy to access genuine rewards. newsXpress newsagents love it for the traffic and sales generated.
newsXpress stores which promote the newsXpress Magazine Club Card reap rewards of extra sales and terrific customer word of mouth.
Check out the photo of what Renee has created at newsXpress Watergardens in Victoria. This pillar display in our magazine department confronts the magazine shopper in the space where they are most likely to be encouraged by the loyalty reward offer.
The display is beautifully professional, using newsXpress collateral to the max, showing off what creative talent Renee is on the newsXpress team.
A good loyalty program will drive shoppers to go beyond their usual or average behaviour. This is exactly what the newsXpress Magazine Club Card does.
newsXpress has an opportunity for anyone interested in buying a newsagency. Located in a high traffic A-Class situation. This is an ideal opportunity for a first time or mature newsagency operator. If you are interested in buying a newsagency or opening a newsagency, please make contact with Mark Fletcher today on 0418 321 338.
newsXpress locations right across Australia are all set for the latest HOT Ink! catalogue which kicks into life today. Featuring some excellent deals on ink and starring the exceptional newsXpress customer service experience, HOT Ink! Will drive traffic and sales for newsXpress members.
Our ink catalogues are being delivered to homes and businesses around newsXpress stores to help attract new shoppers to newsXpress stores.
Featuring bonus packs and other offers, the two-page flyer represents excellent value for the ink shopper. It is a tribute to excellent work by our merchandise and creative teams – sourcing brand name ink at highly competitive prices and packaging the offer in a creative and exciting way to present our businesses as different to your average newsagency.
In addition to promoting ink, the Hot Ink! flyer promotes the newsXpress Facebook campaign, providing another opportunity for people receiving the flyer to connect with newsXpress online.
newsXpress members are promoting this latest offer with professional merchandising of the product, sending flyers to customers by mail and email, placing the flyers out the front of the store and by driving local word of mouth campaigns.
HOT Ink! is an important part of the newsXpress marketing mix. We cleverly use ink as a way of introducing more shoppers to our businesses … with tremendous success.
These Hocus Pocus Halloween buttons from newsXpress strategic partner Hallmark are a nice bit of fun for newsXpress stores this Halloween. It is good to have genuinely unique product which we know appeals to the Halloween shopper.
newsXpress stores are locating the Hallmark Halloween buttons in a perfect position in among their Halloween 2011 displays.